The Story of the Brave Danish People Haggith Gor
Many years ago Danish citezens lived peacefully in Denmark. They loved to eat good food, to sleep, to raise children and play with them. They loved to tell beautiful stories like The Little Murmaid and the Ugly Ducling. And they did not like at all wars. They did not want to fight others and they did not want others to fight them
One day the Germans opened a big war that was called World War II. The people who lived in Denmark declared: We are neutral, we don't like wars. We don’t want to fight others and we don't want others to fight us. They expected all other countries to respect their wish..
But the German army did not respect the wish of the Danish people. The German Army invaded Denmark and occupied its land. The German soldiers entered each city and each village in Denmark and they told the Danish people what to do and how to behave. The Danes did not like to see German soldiers in their streets.
The Danes hated the occupation. They did not want the German soldiers to control them. They started to resist. Once a German Nazi soldier caught a Jewish Danish person and wanted to arrest him. The Danish people who were in the streets and sa it, got very angry at the Nazi soldier. They surrounded him and forced him to let the Jewish man go. They took the man to the police station where the Danish police helped him hide from the Germans.
The Danes organized an underground, a group of people that would sabotage the German army. The German announced an emergency state in Denmark. Because they hated Jews, they decided to expel all the Jewish Danes from Denmark. The leaders of the Danish underground heard about the. German intention to expel al the Danish Jews. They sent a warning to all the Jews and helped them find a hiding place.
The Danish people hid Jews in the churches and in their homes.
They organized a rescue operation. The Christian and Jewish Danes collected money to pay for the rescue operation. They drove the Jews to the sea shore and put them on fishing boats, on big boats and on small boats…
And on middle size boats…
They sent them on sailing boats and on fishing boats across the sea to Sweden.
The fisherman sailed the little boats.
The captains sailed the big boats.
Sweden was a nuetral country and the Jews who arrived to Sweden were saved.
The Swedish welcomed the Danish Jews with open hearts. The Swedish police helped the them to find houses. The Swedish people helped the Jewish Danes to live in Sweden until the war ended.
The Jewish children of Denmark were saved due to the courage of the brave Danish citizens.
The parents of the Jewish children of Denmark were saved due to the courage of the brave Danish citizens. When the war ended the Danish Jews returned to their homes in Denmark, some immigrated to Israel.
The State of Israel gave the courageous citizens of Denmark The Righteous Among the Nations Award. The Award of the Righteous Among the Nations is a symbol of bravery and courage given to honor people who risk their lives in order to save Jews. The Danes kept the right for life of their Jewish neighbors even when it was dangerous for them.